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Women and Smoking  - Chapter in a book on tobacco in the UK.
"You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby" - Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada.
16. Women and smoking - Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic - Report in PDF format from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women.
ABCNEWS.com: Women and Cigarettes - Collection of ABC reporting on women, smoking, quitting, and tobacco industry marketing to women.
ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke? - Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking.
ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000 - Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice.
Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction - "Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation."
Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco - Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco - Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).
Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke - Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.
Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model - Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer.
Cigarette Ads Targetting Women - A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.
Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis - Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women."
Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes - Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.
Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy - New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
Cigarettes Cause More Damage to Women - Recent research finds that cigarettes cause more disease in women.
Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer - Summary of recent research.
Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women - According to recent research.
Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females - The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.
Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women - Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.
Facts on Women and Tobacco - Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
Higher death risk for women smokers - Women are twice as likely to develop an untreatable form of lung cancer than men, according to the UK's biggest lung cancer study.
Independence From Smoking - National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking.
International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT) - Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
ivillage: Smoking and Women - Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking - US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular
June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women - Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.
Ladies Home Journal on Smoking - Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.
Marketing Cigarettes to Women - Fact Sheet - CDC pamphlet covers history of cigarette advertising strategies, current advertising strategies, sponsorships and promotions, and global advertising strategies.
Mediascope Issue Briefs - Women and Smoking - Factsheet, all sources cited; tobacco industry promotion to women; smoking and women's health.
OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk - Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer.
Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls - Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.
Philip Morris: National Expert on Women - Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues".
Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination - Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.
Recruiting Women Smokers: The Engineering of Consent - Summarizes research on how cigarette advertisers structure their messages and images to get more women to smoke.
Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. - Book review.
Scientist Deplores Philip Morris' "Woman Thing" Music Campaign as Latest Enticement to Young Girls - A public health expert and other prominent speakers deplore "Philip Morris' latest move to entice young girls to smoke: the "Woman Thing" music campaign where girls get "free" CD's by buying two packs of Virginia Slims cigarettes.
Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function - Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.
Sluts against Butts - Features women bent on holding the tobacco companies responsible.
Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker? - Benefits of quitting for you and your baby, resources that will help you quit smoking and stay quit, and how to contact Smoke-Free Families.
Smokey Imagery and the 7 Deadly Myths - Oxygen.com describes tobacco industry use of images of thin, liberated women, enjoying an active, love-filled life, to get women to smoke.
Smoking and Quitting for Women - From the National Women's Health Information Center.
Smoking and Reproduction - ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and long-term growth.
Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic - World Health Organiziation fact sheet.
Smoking is a Women's Issue - Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.
Smoking Is Ugly - Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info.
Smoking's a Drag for Women - Article from the Toronto Sun about smoking cessation.
Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women - Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher.
Smoking: A Guide for Teens - Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
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